@unknownuser said:

wow, i really screw this thread up..

i meant to make a new post that quoted some of what i wrote in my previous response but i ended up editing that post instead..

so, my last post may not make much sense in the threaded order.. sorry.

regardless, maybe autosave is causing 1/2 of my crashes ??

Jeff, try it with autosave on, and autosave off, and compare the amount of crashes. see which works best for you.
I did that a long time ago, and OFF works best for me. Either way, keep on sketchupping.

Then again jeff, my old computer had only 4 megs of memory, and could not keep too many programs open.
But now I got 24 megs, and I'm pretty happy about it.
So SU stays open all day long.
At the moment I'm rendering in kerkythea, photoshopping the renders, and constructing in SU, so far no crashes.

yeah, i know.. i'm not trying to battle or anything.

No battle Jeff, far from it.
SU can be finicky at times, saving often is important, I just feel more comfortable with doing my own savings, and of course getting pissed off when I crash, and I forgot to save.

@frederik said:

@tails said:

I could turn off autosave, but why?

@unknownuser said:

try turning off the automatic save feature, it may not be the total answer to crashes, but it will help

I can only speak from my experience on my PC.
I believe the default auto save is set for every 5 minutes, and this would interfere with I was doing and crash on me.
Someone suggested to me to turn off this feature, and I have had A LOT LESS crashes, but I do save often, and do not rely on autosave.
Just my 2 cents worth, for something that works for me.

By the way jeff, I never said SP was NOT going to crash on you.

try turning off the automatic save feature, it may not be the total answer to crashes, but it will help

What are you rendering with ?

Been playing around with curviloft, and it seems to be working.
thank you Fredo for the plugin

Hi Everyone,
Since my mind does not seem to be working well this morning, I could use some help.
I have been trying to do some cable wires like in the back of a TV set (see image )
and can't seem to come up with a good way to do this, keep in mind that the wires have to bend in 3D space,
and not line up on one axis only. Hope I'm being clear.
Thanks in advance

[quote="David_H"]ooh. . .nice pick. You have one? you lucky pup.

Thanks David, ...I took 8 long years to restore it.

The 356 Porsche, I always found this design to be candy for the eyes.

(especially since I own one.)

@escapeartist said:

+1 for Kerkythea.

No, it doesn't have the SU integration that many of the other renderers do and it's not as fast as others, but it's free. It's also very powerful and produces great images.

Thanks majid.

SU 8 ?

The only way to decide as to what will satisfy your render needs is to download and try as many as you can before buying, and there are some good ones that are FREE, and work just as well.

Thank you scottpara, they will come in handy at some point in my business.

Try kerkythea, (free), Right now I'm looking toward Thea render.
But try them all first.

Don't know what renderer you are using, but most have the capability to add "Omni" lights that add general ambient light without being seen, and then adjust settings to your liking.

Thanks Fredo

I tried it, but didn't work for me.
You are on vista, and I'm on windows 7 maybe that's why.
Maybe you can tell us how you did it?

@unknownuser said:

The link doesn't seem to be working for me? Keep getting an error 500??

Puck

SAME HERE